Frans de Boer wrote: > Dear reader, > > While building things again, I now start to wonder why LFS let almost > every package installs a static library? Where are the static libraries > used? > > After all, the down side of static libraries is that once linked into a > module/program, any upgrade is not incorporated. Potentially leaving > modules/programs vulnerable to manipulation. > > It is listed that only a very few use some static libraries and others > are not mentioned. I know, disk space is not an issue nowadays, but > still it needs to be maintained and dependencies are not listed anyhow. > > Can someone shed some light on this issue?
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